Right now the weather feels somewhere between winter and spring, cold nights and warm days. I live in a place where we have mostly sunny warm days throughout the year, so it's easy to forget about winter once the year starts over. For today's mani tutorial, I merged two things that I feel can be used in this weather gap: pink glitter and a matte finish.

It's normally around this time of the year that I struggle with the palest my skin can get. I'm lucky enough to live in a place where there is sun most of the year but it can get a little too cold and gloomy by January. To bring a little warmth to my face, I use a couple of products that will help me out to define my features and bronze up my skin.

By this time you may already know that Pantone chose a "warm and seductive" red-brown shade as their color of the year, that being Marsala. Besides the fact that this color reminds me so much of the now very trendy 90s lip color, I know that it can work wonderfully in an entire makeup look. I used a couple of products in my collection that would help me channel my own Marsala.

This year I'm turning 24 and I wanted to do a look that would suit my mood for this birthday. I have to say I'm not as excited as other years, but I know I'll be going out for a couple of cocktails and you better look good for those pictures! I went for plummy shades in a smokey eye and nude lips to not bother on reapplying any product there throughout the night.

This week's mani wasn't supposed to look anything like this. After going through my nail polishes and changing storage I discovered a mini sized glitter polish that just claimed to be used. I had just painted my nails earlier in the day with the base color so I started to add the silver glitter to play and ended up loving it!

In my previous post for a NYE makeup, I mentioned a look that didn't make it to a blog post. I tried to do the same steps but I changed things up a little to give the look a little more edge instead of just a normal winged eyeliner, I still used the same eyeshadows and lipstick–my main inspiration.